Brian “Bones” Breland (63), of Brooklyn, passed away on December 17, 2023. Visitation will be held from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 21 at First Baptist Church of Brooklyn, with a service to follow. Moore Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
Frank Bullock (82), of Purvis, passed away on December 15, 2023. Burial is in Bullock Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Thomas Aaron Carter (88), of Purvis, passed away on December 17, 2023. Visitation will be held from 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 21 at Mt. Hebron Primitive Baptist Church, with a service to follow. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Laura Louise Cascio (80), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 14, 2023. Burial is in Clinton Cemetery, and Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Dorothy Dean Breazeale Dobson (91), of Purvis, passed away on December 12, 2023. Burial is in Cherished Acres Cemetery, and Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Frank Robert Edgar, Jr. (71), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 16, 2023. Visitation will be held from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 21 at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home, with a service to follow. Burial is in Roseland Park Cemetery and Mausoleum.
Linda Goetzman (83), of Petal, passed away on December 10, 2023. Pinehaven Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Charlotte Beech Harris (82), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 15, 2023. Visitation will be held from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 21 at Moore Hattiesburg Chapel, with a service to follow. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Charlotte Hadley Herchenhahn (81), of Petal, passed away on December 15, 2023. Burial is in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Kevin Ray Mapp (50) passed away on December 14, 2023. Pinehaven Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Gary Howard Montgomery (76) passed away on December 12, 2023. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Donna Carol Moore (78), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 16, 023. A graveside service will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, December 22 at Highland Cemetery. Moore Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
William Harris “Bill” Seawell, Jr. (66), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 15, 2023. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
James H. Smith (82), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 17, 2023. Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Geneva Terry (81), passed away on December 9, 2023. Burial is in Highland Cemetery, and Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Julia Ross Thompson (88), of Hattiesburg, passed away on December 15, 2023. Moore Funeral service handled arrangements.
Glen Allen Yawn (74) passed away on December 12, 2023. Trinity Funeral Services handled arrangements.
Mr. Mack Gibbons
(January 13, 1933-December 13, 2023)
Graveside services for Mr. Mack Graham Gibbons, Sr., age 90, of Hattiesburg were held at 11:30 a.m., Monday, December 18, 2023 at Highland Cemetery. Bro. Brad Brownlee officiated the service. Serving as pallbearers were Zeke Powell, Carey Varnado, Brian Kenney, James Moore, John Craft, Robert D. Bland III, and Mack Gibbons, Jr. as alternate.
Mack Graham Gibbons, Sr., had his appointment with the Lord on the evening of December 13, 2023. His daughter, Sharon, and son-in-law, Carey Varnado, were at his bedside in their home where they had cared for Mack since 2020.
Mack was born January 13, 1933 at the South Mississippi Charity Hospital in Laurel, MS. His family was the fourth generation of Gibbons to farm in Covington County where his great great grandmother, Louisa Gibbons, was a founder of Shiloh Baptist Church. At thirteen, Mack was baptized in the creek that flowed beside the church. His education began at Smith School where he completed the 10-year-curriculum. After the death of his father in August 1949, Mack helped his mother pick the family’s last cotton crop and used the profit to pay his father’s farm and medical bills. While attending Salem School for eleventh grade, Mack drove a school bus for income. He attended senior year in Mize; in 1951, he became the only child in his family to achieve a high school degree. Mack married his Covington County sweetheart, Carolyn Bland, in 1952. He served the U.S. Army from ’53-’55; because Mack took typing in high school, he was supply clerk for an engineer battalion stationed in Germany. After honorable discharge, he attended college on the GI Bill and earned a B.S. degree in business from Mississippi College while managing the Stonewall Jackson Motel in Jackson, MS where he lived with Carolyn and their first child. With his college degree in hand, Mack worked primarily in the Hattiesburg area and had a successful business career as a building materials store manager, a real estate agent, and a home builder. Mack and Carolyn loved to travel stateside and abroad. They drove their camper van on a roundtrip to Canada to celebrate their 50th anniversary. In retirement, Mack and Carolyn were founding members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USM where they both discovered their talents as artists. Mack painted and wrote many poems as well as his autobiography. Even in his last decade, Mack was always curious and open to new ideas, a voracious reader, and had a good sense of humor. He was a man of Christian faith and looked forward to being with his beloved wife, Carolyn, again.
Mack was preceded in death by his wife, Carolyn Sue Gibbons; son, Robert F. Gibbons; parents, Frank and Ruby Gibbons; and 12 siblings.
He is survived by his son, Mack (Diane) Gibbons, Jr. of Hattiesburg; daughter, Dr. Sharon (Carey) Varnado of Hattiesburg; grandchildren, John Casey (Dr. Sarah Irvin) Black of Columbia, MO, Kimberly Anne (Brian) Kenney of Laurel, and Jennifer Leigh (Erik) Dewitt of Oak Grove; and great grandchildren, Ryleigh, Reagan, and Zachary Kenney and Jackson and Katherine Dewitt.
Jones and Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
